Definition of Trim

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Definition of Trim

Trim

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat.

To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree.

To dress, as timber; to make smooth.

To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.

To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.

To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.

To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.

Dress; gear; ornaments.

Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim.

The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.

The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.

Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect.

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Trim Quotations

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
Moon Unit Zappa

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
Donald Rumsfeld

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
Leland Stanford

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.
Jay Roach

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.
Peter Shilton

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
John Stuart Blackie

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.
Ian Gilmour

Trim Translations

trim in Dutch is afzetten, beslaan, garneren
trim in French is garnir
trim in Spanish is en buen estado

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